1135.10. If a corporation, in this section referred to as the "new corporation", resulting from the amalgamation, within the meaning of section 544, of two or more corporations, each of which is referred to in this section as the "predecessor corporation", carries on after the amalgamation a business carried on before the amalgamation by a predecessor corporation, the new corporation is deemed, for the purposes of sections 1135.1 to 1135.8, to continue the existence of the predecessor corporation.